ElPsyKongroo

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[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's... it's not satire?!

This frame gives off a "This is a 2000s anime cliffhanger shot" vibe. For a second I thought the episode was already over.

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Knowing that this image is usually used with "ass" instead of "fire", I was surprised until looking at it closer, cause I thought the episode was great haha

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Love Ado too!

I just saw your other message now, but I see you found the community!

Minami. She's a Japanese artist that I've seen live, well... 0 times. Turns out if you mainly only listen to Japanese music and you live in Europe, concerts don't work out too well for you.

I joined about half a year after the 3rd party apps died. Reddit's decision back then still feels like it was more recent than just 2 years ago, though...

Can time stop speedrunning itself, please?

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While I haven't seen Eureka Seven (though I want to at some point), I do know this song. It's a fun one for sure! Although I personally like "Thank You" by the same artist a bit more.

For me, Minami's Hollowness has been sitting in the number 1 spot for the past 2-3 years (although I've discovered the song in 2019). I particularly love the lyrics for this one, so make sure you turn the English subs on, unless you know Japanese. Hollowness wasn't always my favorite Minami song, but my favorite song has consistently been from Minami ever since I discovered her in 2019. It was just a matter of which one.

Then, in no particular order, my next 4 to round out the Top 5 are:

  • Harusaruhi's Oogoto - My first introduction to her, still my favorite song by Harusaruhi. I did hear a couple V.W.P songs, of which she's a part of, before Oogoto, but this was my first song from her alone without the rest of the group.
  • Ave Mujica's Symbol IV - Beautiful song that shot them up in my artist rankings a lot. Not that I don't love other songs by Ave Mujica though!
  • MyGO's Shiori - Sometimes it takes me a while to warm up to a song. It's not always after my first listen. That's part of why I never skip an anime opening or ending, even when I'm not particularly into it: cause I know I might change my opinion drastically. Well, this isn't one of them. Love at first listen for MyGO's Shiori.
  • Minami's Crying for Rain - Once upon a time my favorite Minami song, which is now Hollowness. Was also the first I've heard from her. And honestly, the only reason it's not number 1 still is cause I've listened to it way too much. Given some time, it might go back up.
[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ended up creating it and damn, note to self: don't do that at night when you're a bit tired already. Somehow I read your comment without the "don't", which... makes a difference haha.

I added "Undetermined" now, so I'm guessing it's not really an issue beyond the community being visible to less people for its first 10-or-so minutes?

 

Let's kick things off with what is, well, probably a hard question, to get to know each other, since this is a new community. What is your favorite Japanese song?

I know a lot of people, myself included, would have a hard time deciding on a number 1, especially since it can and will change over time. So feel free to list several of your favorites if you can't choose. I'll post mine as well in a comment below.

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well, I guess this shows my on-and-off existence on Lemmy thus far. I had no idea that instance wasn't online anymore. I had subscribed to it way back. Not that it would've been fitting given those rules anyway, but that's good to know, so thanks for letting me know.

I'll look more into what creating my own community would entail.

 

I don't know whether anyone would be interested since I'm just a random person haha, but I want to start doing this for myself even without posting it. But since I'd be doing it, I thought I might as well post it.

However, I couldn't find a suitable community. There's !japanesemusic@feddit.de, but they have some rules that would conflict with what I would post. "Title of music posts should contain "Artist - Title" in Romaji, optionally additional tags like [year] [genre]", which doesn't work if the post would contain multiple songs. Also "Do not submit more than one link by the same artist per day", since it's highly likely at least one artist will show up with more than 1 song in any given month.

I found some other Japanese Music related communities too, but they're genre-specific, like City Pop.

Thanks for any help, but if there's no such community, that's also fine!

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Sweden is one of the non-obvious countries (that being places that aren't like... UK, USA, Australia, etc) that I would have expected to be on this map. So that makes sense that that they're close, just not 90% or higher.

Although I've never been to Sweden, so admittedly my assumption wasn't based on anything.

[–] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I knew about this story already, but damn if the article name doesn't make it seem like more of a big deal. (Strictly the article title. Your post title is more clear, I'm not referring to that)

 

I wasn't sure how to name this post so it makes sense, but I'll explain more here.

I say I'm a kinda new reader because, technically, I have read, it's just that most were stuff I hated and was forced to in school. The books I've read for fun have mostly been as a kid, because afterwards I got turned away by the obligativity of reading what are considered classics in my country.

However, since late last year, I've slowly been getting back into reading. For fun this time. I might get criticized for this, but the few I read since then, I downloaded off of the internet. But now I'd like to actually buy them.

With that being said, however, how do you all decide what books to buy? Given that I'm new to (getting back into) reading, I don't exactly have favorite authors that I could make an educated guess that I'll enjoy. Buying a book is a gamble, cause the summary could sound interesting, but the story itself could still be bad. This hasn't been an issue so far, because there's no risk of not enjoying a book if I pirated it. All I would lose would be the time spent on reading however much before I drop it.

I feel like I will end up spending a lot of time pondering about whether I really want X book and reading or watching spoiler-free reviews. How do you decide what to buy? And how often do you end up not finishing a book you've bought?

(An extra question that's of less importance right now, so feel free to not answer to this next one, unless you want to, but paperback or hardcover? What I'm hearing is paperback being more portable, cheaper and comfortable, while hardcover looks way better. Most of the time I'd be reading at home anyway, so portability doesn't matter as much for me. But I would very much like it to be comfortable to hold and all and look great on shelves, so I'm undecided, heh).

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